Give Cameron Diaz a break- June 25, 2007 MSNBC.comAP Cameron Diaz says sorry for Mao bag The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated Shrek films visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu in Perus Andes on Friday carrying an olive green bag emblazoned with a red star and the words Serve the People printed in Chinese, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedongs most famous political slogan. The bags are marketed as fashionhttp://www.gci275.com/log/2007/06/give-cameron-diaz-break.shtml A shot that was heard through history- June 20, 2007 New York Times Earliest Gunshot Victim in New World Is Reported Digging in an Inca cemetery in the suburbs of Lima, they came on well-preserved remains of an individual with holes less than an inch in diameter in the back and front of the skull. Forensic scientists in Connecticut said the position of the round holes and some minuscule iron particles showed that the person most likely was shothttp://www.gci275.com/log/2007/06/shot-that-was-heard-through-history.shtml Fujimori, come home!- June 7, 2007 Living in Peru Peru's Fujimori one step closer to extradition -- it's not the final verdict, but the first clue as to which direction the Chilean judicial system is leaning: Chilean Supreme Court Prosecutor Monica Maldonado has officially recommended the extradition of Peru's former president, Alberto Fujimori, citing 10 different charges of corruption and human rights violations. The chargeshttp://www.gci275.com/log/2007/06/fujimori-come-home.shtml Only mention the words Machu Picchu and it's news- June 3, 2007 New York Times: The Other Machu Picchu is a story about a place that is not Machu Picchu, called Choquequirao, but nearby in the Cusco region.In Cuzco before the trip, Pedro Tacca, the director of patrimony for the National Cultural Institute, had spoken to me about the importance of preserving communities like Cachora and the other towns near Choquequirao as tourism to the site grows. He saidhttp://www.gci275.com/log/2007/06/only-mention-words-machu-picchu-and-its.shtml |